I’m a Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI working on post-training, with a focus on coding, game-playing agents, and game development.

Previously, I was a Senior Research Scientist at Netflix, where I worked on AI-powered interactive experiences and research problems in generative models and games. Before that, I received a PhD at MIT, advised by Justin Solomon, and a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics and an M.S. in Mathematics, both at Stanford University.

Publications

Steering Readerly Dynamics: Trajectory-Guided Story Generation with Large Language Models

Danrui Li, Yiwei Zhao, Mubbasir Kapadia, Lingxiao Li

Preprint

sDMD: Sinkhorn Distribution Matching Distillation

Jaihoon Kim, Lingxiao Li, Soshi Shimada, Roshni Cooper, Minhyuk Sung, Yiwei Zhao

Preprint

Video4Spatial: Towards Visuospatial Intelligence with Context-Guided Video Generation

Zeqi Xiao, Yiwei Zhao, Lingxiao Li, Yushi Lan, Ning Yu, Rahul Garg, Roshni Cooper, Mohammad H. Taghavi, Xingang Pan

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2026) Findings, Denver, Colorado

Correctness-Guaranteed Code Generation via Constrained Decoding

Lingxiao Li, Salar Rahili, Yiwei Zhao

Oral Presentation
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM 2025), Montreal, Canada

Go-with-the-Flow: Motion-Controllable Video Diffusion Models Using Real-Time Warped Noise

Ryan Burgert, Yuancheng Xu, Wenqi Xian, Oliver Pilarski, Pascal Clausen, Mingming He, Li Ma, Yitong Deng, Lingxiao Li, Mohsen Mousavi, Michael Ryoo, Paul Debevec, Ning Yu

Oral Presentation
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025), Nashville, TN

Infinite-Resolution Integral Noise Warping for Diffusion Models

Yitong Deng, Winnie Lin, Lingxiao Li, Dmitriy Smirnov, Ryan Burgert, Ning Yu, Vincent Dedun, Mohammad H Taghavi

Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), Singapore

Scalable Methodologies for Optimizing Over Probability Distributions

Lingxiao Li

PhD thesis. MIT, 2024

Debiased Distribution Compression

Lingxiao Li, Raaz Dwivedi, Lester Mackey

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna

Self-Consistent Velocity Matching of Probability Flows

Lingxiao Li, Samuel Hurault, Justin Solomon

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023), New Orleans, LA

Sampling with Mollified Interaction Energy Descent

Lingxiao Li, Qiang Liu, Anna Korba, Mikhail Yurochkin, Justin Solomon

Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2023), Kigali

Learning Proximal Operators to Discover Multiple Optima

Lingxiao Li, Noam Aigerman, Vladimir G. Kim, Jiajin Li, Kristjan Greenewald, Mikhail Yurochkin, Justin Solomon

Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2023), Kigali

Wasserstein Iterative Networks for Barycenter Estimation

Alexander Korotin, Vage Egiazarian, Lingxiao Li, Evgeny Burnaev

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022), New Orleans, LA

Interactive All-Hex Meshing via Cuboid Decomposition

Lingxiao Li, Paul Zhang, Dmitriy Smirnov, Mazdak Abulnaga, Justin Solomon

SIGGRAPH Asia 2021, Tokyo

Do Neural Optimal Transport Solvers Work? A Continuous Wasserstein-2 Benchmark

Alexander Korotin, Lingxiao Li, Aude Genevay, Justin Solomon, Alexander Filippov, Evgeny Burnaev

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021), online

Large-Scale Wasserstein Gradient Flows

Petr Mokrov*, Alexander Korotin*, Lingxiao Li, Aude Genevay, Justin Solomon, Evgeny Burnaev

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021), online

Continuous Wasserstein-2 Barycenter Estimation without Minimax Optimization

Alexander Korotin, Lingxiao Li, Justin Solomon, Evgeny Burnaev

Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021), online

Continuous Regularized Wasserstein Barycenters

Lingxiao Li, Aude Genevay, Mikhail Yurochkin, Justin Solomon

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020), online

Supervised Fitting of Geometric Primitives to 3D Point Clouds

Lingxiao Li*, Minhyuk Sung*, Anastasia Dubrovina, Li Yi, Leonidas Guibas

Oral Presentation
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019), Long Beach, CA

Branching Rules of Classical Lie Groups in Two Ways

Lingxiao Li

Undergraduate honors thesis. Stanford University, 2018